Monday, October 24, 2016

The creation of subsidies to landlords to the poor is “a nonsense” – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

The owners require is that you let them set the budgets based on the market value, say

The president of the Association of Owners Lisbonense (ALP), Luís Menezes Leitão, considered today “absurd” the proposal by the PS to create subsidies to landlords to the poor, stressing that the intention is to “hit the rental market”.

Luís Menezes Leitão respond, in statements to the Lusa agency, the today’s news from the Business Journal, according to which the “parliamentary group of the PS you want to submit a proposal for change to the diploma of the grant income in order to allow this pass to apply not only to tenants with needs of financial, but also the landlords in the same circumstances in case of the contracts of old lace, prior to 1990″.

“We find this completely absurd. The owners are in need of subsidies, and much less to subsidize tenants wealthy -need is that they let set rents based on market value”, said to Lusa the president of the ALP.

Menezes Leitão reminded that the owners had a process of freezing of budgets for more than 100 years, which has left him completely descapitalizados.

“at This time, it was hoped that this process of freezing of budgets end at the end of 2017, allowing the owners to set rents at least based on the equity value of the property, since it is based on it that pay taxes,” he stressed.

according To the guardian, the fact that the parliament recognise that, with its measures is to contribute to cause misery to the owners, then it is not only a need for a subsidy, but also exempt the owners from obligations that the State establishes in relation to his property as the IMI or the rate of municipal civil protection.

“So, our position as to this subsidy is that, in fact, shows the total absurdity and the protectionism and favoritism that the parliament want to protect tenants who are not in need of economic disadvantage. We want is to finish with the freezing of budgets in 2017,” he said.

mrs Helena Roseta explained to the Business Journal that the “goal is that also the owners who, by force of law, can not put their properties on the open market and with the budgets that very well understand, they can, if they have needs-financial, benefit from a subsidy”.

“The conditions of allocation will be the same as the law already provides for the tenants, that is, only if you assign the allowance to landlords whose household has income below 37.100 euros gross annual (the equivalent of five minimum remuneration guaranteed national),” according to Helena Roseta.